The Reading Vent & Rant Thread - Page 49

ownedbycats · 10-17-2022, 02:56 PM

Speaking of Overdrive, why is that when I have several books on hold, they all become available at the same time? Since I'm not expecting another power outage in the near future, I need to figure out which ones to pass on for now.

JSWolf · 10-17-2022, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Speaking of Overdrive, why is that when I have several books on hold, they all become available at the same time? Since I'm not expecting another power outage in the near future, I need to figure out which ones to pass on for now.

Just lucky I guess.

ownedbycats · 10-22-2022, 06:37 PM

Maybe I'm just being unreasonable, but it bothers me when an omnibus ends on a cliffhanger.

Individual books in a series? Okay, I can tolerate it (though a cliffhanger in the first book is usually enough to put me off). But I kind of expect an omnibus to at least complete an arc.

Darqref · 10-22-2022, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Maybe I'm just being unreasonable, but it bothers me when an omnibus ends on a cliffhanger.

Individual books in a series? Okay, I can tolerate it (though a cliffhanger in the first book is usually enough to put me off). But I kind of expect an omnibus to at least complete an arc.

I'll go a bit further: A Trilogy is NOT A SUBSTITUTE for an ending! So many books I've found recently that have nothing resolved by the end of each "book" in the series. Sometimes they're fun to read anyway, but ... (at least the standard rules of romance require some kind of romantic resolution.)

I remember talking to a then-popular SF author, who recommended beginning writers try to write short stories, as a way of making themselves learn to write endings.

ownedbycats · 10-22-2022, 11:31 PM

ok, who the hell tagged Anne Frank's Diary as "science fiction & fantasy" and "juvenile fiction" on overdrive?

HLS · 10-23-2022, 09:45 AM

I hate ebook glitches I find on the kobo app for iPad. It repeats the same chapters. Like multiple copys of a chapter in a book? I will finish the chapter, turn the page and the chapter starts from the beginning again. i see some gliches with kindle as well. Some pages or just paragraphs 'repeating"

Hitch · 10-23-2022, 10:10 AM

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ok, who the hell tagged Anne Frank's Diary as "science fiction & fantasy" and "juvenile fiction" on overdrive?

Maybe--seriously--a Holocaust Denier? Could that be it?

Hitch

ownedbycats · 10-23-2022, 11:20 AM

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Maybe--seriously--a Holocaust Denier? Could that be it?

Hitch

That's what I thought. I'm not sure if the subjects on Overdrive are user-derived or not. I also couldn't find anywhere to report mistakes.

issybird · 10-23-2022, 12:24 PM

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That's what I thought. I'm not sure if the subjects on Overdrive are user-derived or not. I also couldn't find anywhere to report mistakes.

It looks to me as if the publisher, located in India, is a vanity publisher/pirate and may be out of business at that. I assume they supplied the tags. Now how this particular edition got listed on OverDrive I have no clue, but certainly none of my libraries has it.

JSWolf · 10-23-2022, 12:39 PM

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It looks to me as if the publisher, located in India, is a vanity publisher/pirate and may be out of business at that. I assume they supplied the tags. Now how this particular edition got listed on OverDrive I have no clue, but certainly none of my libraries has it.

Maybe this is the version with Zombies.

ownedbycats · 10-23-2022, 01:58 PM

oh god...

JSWolf · 10-23-2022, 02:21 PM

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oh god...

And here is the movie without the zombies.

ownedbycats · 11-03-2022, 02:35 AM

I'm not sure if I'm just unlucky, but it seems that most of the sci-fi novel I've been reading end up with the characters uncovering some galaxy-threatening conspiracy. It's starting to get a little silly at this point.

ZodWallop · 11-03-2022, 08:28 AM

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I'm not sure if I'm just unlucky, but it seems that most of the sci-fi novel I've been reading end up with the characters uncovering some galaxy-threatening conspiracy. It's starting to get a little silly at this point.

Sounds like you subconsciously drift to those. I guess you like space opera? I don't know if I have ever read a sci-fi novel about a galaxy-threatening conspiracy.

Quoth · 11-03-2022, 12:54 PM

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Sounds like you subconsciously drift to those. I guess you like space opera? I don't know if I have ever read a sci-fi novel about a galaxy-threatening conspiracy.

E E "Doc " Smith. Since 1928.
On Film: Starwars (but far away and long ago so no worries!)
Does the original Foundation Trilogy count?

But I've read plenty of SF without galaxy-threatening conspiracies

10-17-2022, 02:56 PM	#721
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ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,024 Karma: 75555555 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	ok, who the hell tagged Anne Frank's Diary as "science fiction & fantasy" and "juvenile fiction" on overdrive?

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HLS Wizard Posts: 2,133 Karma: 16342480 Join Date: May 2017 Device: Sage, Scribe, Boox Note 2 Plus, iPad Pros and Samsungs S6,S7,S8	I hate ebook glitches I find on the kobo app for iPad. It repeats the same chapters. Like multiple copys of a chapter in a book? I will finish the chapter, turn the page and the chapter starts from the beginning again. i see some gliches with kindle as well. Some pages or just paragraphs 'repeating"

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ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,024 Karma: 75555555 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	oh god...

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ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,024 Karma: 75555555 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	I'm not sure if I'm just unlucky, but it seems that most of the sci-fi novel I've been reading end up with the characters uncovering some galaxy-threatening conspiracy. It's starting to get a little silly at this point.